Comments on: Palin And Gibson: "High Noon" In Alaska

MarketWatch's Jon Friedman Wonders Who's The Good Guy In The Face-Off Between ABC's Veteran Anchor And The GOP's Rising Star

[platteman]

Gibson had the "old" Bush Doctrine. There are at least 4 (four) versions and maybe more, so Palin did a great job. Charlie was off by a mile and it is obvious that he was out to get her. What do you expect. Liberals have only one way to do things. Palin has them all in a tither and they don''t know what to do. HRC got shafted by Obama, the MSM and every other liberal so that the anointed one could win. Obama spent 19 months keeping HRC from the nomination, now he has to stop Palin and has no way to do it. Better sic Biden on her.

What I like now is the equal pay for equal work. Read the story, Obama pays his female staff $.88 and his male staff $1.00. McCain pays his female staff $1.04 for each hour and his male staff $1.00, so who is for equal pay. McCain is better than Obama.

[catlady1412]

Charlie is doing fine! He is patiently cracking this silly woman''s shell. She clearly did not know what the Bush Doctrine was no matter what definition was used, but she tried to bluff her way thru the question rather than just say "I don''t know what you mean by Bush Doctrine" or even better, she could have said she never listens to Bush so has no idea what he decided was his doctrine. Then Charlie had to ask her 3 times whether she believed the US needed Pakistan''s permission to do raids in there, and she clearly had no idea the US already was doing raids under Bush. She clearly has no idea what is happening in Georgia, South Ossetia, and Russia. She did not have any clue what Russia wants out of the Georgia situation, what happened in South Ossetia and why Georgia was attacked. Like threatening Russia is a good idea. She obviously thinks the people of Iran are scarier than their president, when it is actually the other way around. She thinks looking at a tiny spit of Russian land is the same as interacting with Russia or even keeping an eye on Russia? She even claimed that most vice presidents in history had not met heads of state. Hon, Chester Arthur is not relevant to today''s world. That is not justification for your own ignorance. Go home, hockey mom, and read a few books.

[opedanderson]

I saw such sexism and ignorance against HRC during the primary.....as a democrat i was totally shocked.....how some of my fellow dems are reacting to SP....just proves that i wasnt seeing things.....

[aztecdakota]

That Palin (have gun will travel) lost me the other day when she said we should go to war with Russia to save Georgia, yaaahhh! Does she have some sort of secret Army up there in Alaska that can stop a few million hardened Siberian Russian troops from invading the USA, through her precious state? She better get a grip, if we go to war with Russia, we have no army to fight them. She is a dippy lady.

[lovesamerica]

Hey, has the Alaska quarter been minted yet? Will it be a likeness of Plain, or of pipelines surrounded by garbage and shacks? Just a question

[samthetvcat]

1) GIBSON: The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us.

2) Wikipedia - The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves. (Amended to coincide with Charlie Gibson''s definition)

3) AEI - If nothing else, the Bush Doctrine, articulated by the president over the past eighteen months in a series of speeches and encapsulated in the new National Security Strategy paper released in September, represents a reversal of course from Clinton-era policies in regard to the uses of U.S. power and, especially, military force. So perhaps it is no surprise that many Americans--and others in the rest of the world as well--are struggling to keep up with the changes. Indeed, it often appears that many in the administration cannot keep up with the president. But in fact the Bush Doctrine represents a return to the first principles of American security strategy.

4) The Nation - The radical idea being touted by the White House and Pentagon is that the United States has the right to use military force against any state that is seen as hostile or makes moves to acquire weapons of mass destruction--nuclear, biological or chemical.

[samthetvcat]

PS There also seems to be more than one definition of ''The Bush Doctrine'' if you do a gooogle search . . .

[samthetvcat]

Here''s where I sort of start to feel bad, but you know the most natural defense to wage in support of Palin would seemingly be on the media, would it not?

Like to bolster her credibility, might the GOP focus in on the evolution of the term ''the Bush Doctrine'', which didn''t get a Wikipedia page until March 26, 2007? How commonly and frequently has it been used, has it been used in a partisan way or is it commonly accepted lingo, have any other politicians misunderstood other peoples'' reference to the term?

I don''t know what research might find, but if they find that it''s obscure enough isn''t it conceivable the GOP might try to use what they find to make the case that Charlie''s ''agenda'' was more about ''destruction'' rather than ''substance'' by choosing to test on abstrusity rather than defining the phrase outright?

Is it fair? It''s politics . . .

[tejasdemo]

Gibson: Has John made the move on you yet ?
Palin: Not yet
G: Are you prepared for it
Palin: Prepared for what ?

[samthetvcat]

I really enjoyed this article. I just look at it like that Charlie Gibson''s got decades of experience being in the news - and news people are the few among us who know stuff like what the ''Bush Doctrine'' even is. People just assume that if newspeople (who we all sort of lump in together) were to ever try and trip up Barack for sure they''d succeed.

Maybe if the media truly believes that Barack is more prepared to be President than Sarah Palin then they need to hold his feet to the fire and give him the opportunity to prove it (?) Because how many people in polls ever say that he''s ready to be CIC? Is it even a majority yet?

I don''t know . . .